• Oh boy! Vonich Manuscript in the news!

    From Tilde@invalide@invalid.invalid to sci.lang on Fri Jan 30 23:07:33 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.lang


    https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/mysterious-voynich-manuscript-may-be-a-cipher-a-new-study-suggests

    Mysterious Voynich manuscript may be a cipher,
    a new study suggests

    A newly invented cipher may shed light on how
    the mysterious Voynich manuscript was made in
    medieval times.

    A unique cipher that uses playing cards and dice
    to turn languages into glyphs produces text
    eerily similar to the glyphs in the Voynich
    manuscript, a new study shows. The finding
    suggests that an equivalent cipher could have
    been used to create the mysterious medieval
    manuscript.

    The new cipher rCo called "Naibbe," from the name
    of a 14th-century Italian card game rCo does not
    decode the medieval Voynich manuscript, but it
    offers an idea for how the manuscript was made.
    ...


    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01611194.2025.2566408
    The Naibbe cipher: a substitution cipher that
    encrypts Latin and Italian as Voynich
    Manuscript-like ciphertext
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  • From HenHanna@NewsGrouper@user4055@newsgrouper.org.invalid to rec.puzzles,sci.lang,alt.usage.english on Tue Feb 3 21:55:26 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.lang


    Tilde <invalide@invalid.invalid> posted:


    https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/mysterious-voynich-manuscript-may-be-a-cipher-a-new-study-suggests

    Mysterious Voynich manuscript may be a cipher,
    a new study suggests

    A newly invented cipher may shed light on how
    the mysterious Voynich manuscript was made in
    medieval times.

    A unique cipher that uses playing cards and dice
    to turn languages into glyphs produces text
    eerily similar to the glyphs in the Voynich
    manuscript, a new study shows. The finding
    suggests that an equivalent cipher could have
    been used to create the mysterious medieval
    manuscript.

    The new cipher rCo called "Naibbe," from the name
    of a 14th-century Italian card game rCo does not
    decode the medieval Voynich manuscript, but it
    offers an idea for how the manuscript was made.
    ...


    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01611194.2025.2566408
    The Naibbe cipher: a substitution cipher that
    encrypts Latin and Italian as Voynich
    Manuscript-like ciphertext


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    Mysterious Voynich manuscript may be a cipher, a new study suggests



    This heading sounds so silly...

    What's another possibility, if not a cipher (coded text) ?



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